Sherie Randolph

Fields of Study

20th-century United States

African American

African diaspora

Women and gender

Black feminism(s)

Black Power

Social movements

About

Sherie Randolph is assistant professor of History and AfroAmerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The former Associate Director of the Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College, Randolph received her Ph.D. from New York University in 19th- and 20th-century American history with concentrations in African Diaspora and women and gender history. She has received several grants and fellowships for her work, most recently being awarded fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Rutgers University’s Institute for Research on Women and the Center for Race and Ethnicity. Randolph’s principal teaching and research interests focus on the historical intersections of race, gender, class and empire in the United States. She is currently revising a book manuscript titled Black Feminist Radical: Florynce “Flo” Kennedy.

Selected Publications:

“Women’s Liberation or… Black Liberation, You’re Fighting the Same Enemies: Florynce Kennedy, Black Power and Feminism” in Want to Start a Revolution?: Women in the Black Revolt, ed. Dayo Gore, Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodward. New York: New York University Press, 2009.